Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…
What the heck was on the shoemakers' flag?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: heck · What happens: be · To what, where: flag
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heck | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heck | det |
| 3 | heck | heck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flag | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flag | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 flag | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoemakers | det |
| 7 | shoemakers | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flag | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 shoemakers | case |
| 9 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 flag | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | what heck | the shoemakers's flag | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An eagle with two heads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 heads | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A horse with one head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 head | nummod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A lion with a sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A large golden eagle with two heads and wings spread wide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eagle | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wings | cc |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heads | conj |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 10 spread | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | a large golden eagle with two heads and wings | wide property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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